AMD lanceert maandag de K6-III P voor laptops, in de snelheden 350, 366 en 380.
AMD offers a higher-speed memory bus for notebooks, at 100MHz, vs. Intel's 66MHz. K6-III P also supports AGP (Accelerated Graphics Port) and offser AMD's 3DNow set of instructions to enhance 3-D graphics performance.
Intel will not offer its enhanced instruction set fot notebooks until the debut of the mobile Pentium III at 450MHz in September.
By that time, AMD will have increased the K6-III P's clock speed again. Company officials would not say how fast K6-III P is capable of going, but a higher performing version of the chip, code-named Sharptooth CS50 and based on AMD's 0.18 micron manufacturing process, is due in the second half. The chip is currently at .25 micron.
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